Sentence examples for beating of the wings from inspiring English sources

However, as in the largest present-day birds, Pteranodon's large size precluded sustained beating of the wings, so it most likely soared more than it flapped.

Wing-beat referred to continual beating of the wings without prominent postural instability, as seen in wing-beat paralysis (File S9).

As he writes, his image of the butterfly "draws upon popular ideas of chaos theory, in which the beating of the wings of a butterfly can in principle cause a tornado on the other side of the globe".

But the dead only fed the living, and each morning when the people woke it was to the scraping and beating of wings, the murmurous susurration, the awful cooing babble, and the sight of the curious and gentle faces of those creatures.

But as I lie here I can distinctly hear the beating of wings of the angel of death.

With a fierce beating of wings, the butterfly has finally escaped her chrysalis and taken flight.

They function in the regulation of such movements as the beating of wings in locusts.

Electrophysiological studies show that the activity of seven of the direct flight muscles (DFMs) is directly related to the beating of the wing during song [38].

Timing a multiply is thus akin to timing the beating of a hummingbird's wings with an hourglass, a process made worse by the compiler's tendency to optimize away instructions that it can tell are doing nothing and can be compressed.

Over about three weeks, as the air in the hive circulates from the beating of the bees' wings, the nectar dries further until it's sufficiently concentrated to resist bacteria and mould.

Winter or summer the hive's interior temperature stays at 33-36 degrees Celsius; heating and cooling controlled by the beating of the bees' wings.